Thursday, October 16, 2025

Farewell to the Ark - Saraba hakobune (1984)

Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Terayama’s final and elaborate opus takes place on a remote Okinawan island, where a mythical time law rules and shapes memories, life and even death. Sutekichi and his cousin Su-e love each other, attracting the attention and insults of the superstitious inhabitants of an isolated village beyond time. When Sutekichi murders his rival Daisaku, the couple decides to flee from the village, but Sutekichi is haunted by Daisaku’s ghost and increasingly affected by the unforgiving course of time.


Director: Shûji Terayama


Writers: Gabriel García Márquez (novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”), Rio Kishida, Shûji Terayama.


Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Takahashi.

 

Subtitles in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10073589746342 

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